(n.) The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.
(n.) Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(2) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(3) Molecular hybridization experiments to cytoplasmic RNA from similarly contact-exposed conventional Cornell S-line chickens provided further evidence for the occurrence of an interaction between Marek's disease herpesvirus and the avian leukosis virus.
(4) The study group were all pregnant women over 20 primarily cared for and delivered at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center from September 1984- February 1985, excluding those transferred from other institutions for complications.
(5) The control group, which comprised 44 patients referred to the Department for surgical extraction of an impacted tooth, filled in the Cornell Medical Index questionnaire.
(6) Nevertheless, persistent psychiatric sequelae (especially psychoneurosis but also schizophrenia) are the more notable and pervasive for both Pacific World War II POW's and Korean War POW's as seen not only in elevated hospital admission rates but also in VA disability awards and in symptoms reported on the cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire.
(7) Now 61, Wolfowitz was born into a Polish Jewish immigrant family, and grew up mainly in the university town of Ithaca, New York, where his father was a professor of statistical theory at Cornell University.
(8) At partitions with a matched specificity of 95%, each voltage-duration product significantly improved sensitivity for the detection of left ventricular hypertrophy when compared with simple voltage criteria alone (Cornell product 51% [48 of 95] vs. Cornell voltage 36% [34 of 95], p < 0.005 and 12-lead product 45% [43 of 95] vs. 12-lead voltage 31% [30 of 95], p < 0.001).
(9) Measurements were made by using a real-time X-ray diffraction method at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source.
(10) It's pure ad hominem (in the classic sense of the logical fallacy): "who is "Cornell [ sic ] West" to think that anything he says should be even listened to by "national security professionals"?
(11) External validity and concurrent validity were good for all except the Cornell Scale.
(12) Doxtader, K. G. (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.), and M. Alexander.
(13) He is author of Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Cornell University Press) and can be followed on Twitter at @alexander_betts Join our community of development professionals and humanitarians.
(14) According to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, women favored the Democratic candidate in 2012 by 11 points, 2008 by 13, 2004 by three, and 2000 by 10 points.
(15) Married with two grown-up daughters, Rosenfeld, 56, studied psychology at New York's Cornell University before gaining a PhD in marketing statistics and an MBA.
(16) The Cornell Interview of Peers and Friends (CIPF), a 30-minute semistructured interview, evaluated 7- to 11-year-old children's perceptions of their social relationships.
(17) Depressive and neurotic tendencies were not remarkable at that time by Self-Rating-Depression Scale (SDS) and Cornell Medical Index (CMI) in 42 infertile patients.
(18) I ask what a Cornell box representing Cathy Jamison, Linney's character in the new comedy series The Big C, would consist of.
(19) Euthyroid Cornell K strain and sex-linked dwarf (SLD) strain cockerels (which have abnormally low serum triiodothyronine concentrations) were supplemented with either 0, 0.01, 0.1, or 1.0 ppm of triiodothyronine (T3) in the diet.
(20) Of 142 female patients over age 75 at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 58 underwent radical mastectomy and 40 simple mastectomy for primary breast cancer.
Corner
Definition:
(n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
(n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
(n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
(n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
(n.) Direction; quarter.
(n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
(v. t.) To drive into a corner.
(v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
(v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(3) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
(4) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(5) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(6) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.
(7) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
(8) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(9) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(10) Jordanian officials are aware of possible retaliation from an increasingly cornered Damascus, which this week accused Amman of "playing with fire" by opening its border to a military push.
(11) Miller is wide wide wide wide open in the corner of the endzone.
(12) 8.22pm BST 42 mins Now it's a US corner and a chance to exploit the German zonal marking.
(13) But I say to the honourable gentleman we won’t get Britain building unless we keep our economy going.” Later, Marie called in to radio station LBC radio to say that the new Labour leader needed to “change the way he does things, mix things up each week and really not let the Conservatives know which side it’s coming from – firing on all corners but doing it in a calm and collected way”.
(14) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(15) Sigurdsson’s deep corner kick was headed back across goal by Borja and Fer, via a slight touch from Van der Hoorn, stabbed over the line.
(16) The MRTF was low pass in character having a corner frequency of 100-120 Hz.
(17) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(18) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(19) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
(20) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.